Wild Rift Patch Notes 4.3a: Champion Changes, New Gameplay Features, and Item Adjustments

Here we go, the first batch of changes and adjustments of patch 4.3a has been released! Though I’m unsure whether they are all appropriate… go and see for yourself.
For starters, we are getting a cool new vampire champion that is likely going to be banned in ranked forever (Sierra predicts). Additionally, his Event: VLADIMIR’S TRIVIA, which I’m honestly excited about, will go live on August 17th. Soon, very soon.
There are also some champion changes that we are about to experience, such as Annie’s buff:
They are slightly reducing her base health and armor but increasing the attack damage of her fellow teddy bear Tibbers.
They also reworked her 3rd ability, and now Annie’s shield increases movement speed when applied. The most fun part is her ultimate. 2 seconds after casting Tibbers, Annie can activate this ability again, ordering Tibbers to pounce on a target, dealing incredible amounts of magic damage and making the target airborne for 1 second. A new Yasuo combo is coming. With 0/14 powerspike. Hopefully not!
Caitlyn also received a minor buff to her traps, now it takes her less time to charge them, which, in my opinion, is an unnecessary change. What do you think?
Now Graves, guys… He is going to be very strong as the devs are buffing his first ability and ultimate's damage. That will hurt for sure.
Gwen is probably moving to the jungle, as her 1st ability deals 80% damage ratio to monsters. Quite an interesting plot twist! She will also be less squishy early game when laning because her HALLOWED MIST ability is being buffed. I think these are good changes as Gwen has been rarely picked lately and has felt a bit weak. Good job, Riot!
I really liked Lee Sin's buff! He was so weak; I barely felt him when playing against him. So now his main and most annoying 1st ability will deal more burst damage. Just look at these numbers! This is a significant buff.
What surprised me was Leona’s buff! Now she is going to deal more damage with her basic attacks and her Ultimate. This is huge! Leona deserved it, didn't she?
Now Nilah's buff… To be honest, at first, I thought that this was unnecessary as she felt super strong to me. But after playing with her in a number of games, I really did feel what devs are talking about: We know she wants to be in the middle of the action, but since her arrival, we’ve noticed she hasn’t been able to do that, so we’re slightly buffing her survivability. I must say they are right! It was really hard not to die after engaging with Nilah in the team fight. She really was too squishy for her melee playstyle. That’s not right. She needs that extra armor buff and health regeneration for sure. Good job!
But what I absolutely didn’t like is that devs are trying Nilah in the jungle? 60% Active damage ratio of Formless Blade (her 1st ability) to monsters. Did I understand it right: Nilah is moving to the jungle? If I'm correct, then I’m not happy with that. They already took Twitch from the duo lane, and now Nilah? I’ve just started to enjoy playing with her. What do you think about all this?
Olaf… He is getting his deserved nerf. Now his 1st and 3rd abilities will deal less damage, which will balance his strength. I do hope it will.
Ornn got a huge nerf, for the second time now? This shows how freaking strong he was before. And honestly, I think it’s a good decision, as he was built to be a tank, but he also was dealing incredible damage at the same time. That doesn’t feel right at all. Now they decreased his base damage, his health per level, as well as his passive and 2nd ability. Sounds good to me. Let’s see how it worked in the game.
Now, for some reason, the devs decided that Rakan benefited from new runes too much, so they nerfed his base health and 3rd ability. Now he became squishier, and his shields became a bit less useful. That’s a tragedy.
Rammus got his nerf as well, which in my opinion is a pretty good idea, as he was too fast and too tanky. Now his rolling speed from his passive is decreased, and his armor from his 2nd ability is also lowered.
Samira also got some sweet buffs to her 1st and second abilities. The Bonus Attack Damage of her 1st skill is increased and the cooldown of her 2nd skill is lowered.
Volibear is now even more powerful, as he received a Base health regeneration buff and also an 80% Damage ratio to monsters. He became even stronger both in the jungle and in the top lane.
Finally, they addressed the issue with Zoe! That was just insane, I mean her damage. Now her damage from the 1st and 3rd abilities are decreased, which means now she is a balanced mid-laner with a more reasonable damage output.
GLUTTONOUS GREAVES are buffed with Attack Damage: 30 → 35.
BOOTS OF MANA are nerfed for good: Ability Power is decreased from 60 to 55, and Base mana regeneration is also decreased from 200% to 150%. Fair enough, agreed.
PLATED STEELCAPS are also getting nerfed by decreasing their block to reduce physical damage from 15% to 12%. Do you agree?

[@sierrawithlove]

Sorry for my voice, I’m a bit sick 🤒 Hope the video was useful for you!💜

[@Harsh_Pandey0069]

get well soon🥰

[@sierrawithlove]

Thanks 😊

[@garrycaba1233]

Get well soon

[@-.MARK.-279]

they nerf my annie in pc so hard to the point a barely even use here anymore but now in wildrift i can enjoy her again >:)

[@sierrawithlove]

Hope you’ll have some fun 😈

[@DekuStart]

They say Sierrawithlove is underrated KZbinr🎉

[@sierrawithlove]

Really 👀

[@massoudabdo6525]

I think you get it wrong for nilah and gwen They are nerfing them in jungle not buff Instead of 100% ratio from monsters gwen now deal 80% with her first ability and nilah deal 60% So thry are making them far away from jungle and i like it

[@sierrawithlove]

Thanks for making that clear for me! I got confused by the word [NEW] in front of these changes 👀 Glad they are nerfed from the jungle then 😌

[@Harsh_Pandey0069]

gwen nilah and volibear r getting nerfed in jungle....they are capping the damage to monster, like gwen and volibear will now only do 80% of damage instead of full damage like before, similar to nilah they r reducing her damage to jg monster to only 60%👍

[@sierrawithlove]

Ohhh thank god! I got confused by the word [NEW] in front of this change 🤪 Thanks for clearing it up for me 💜

[@villainforfun3034]

Hello, can you tell me what the after match stats “assisted conversion rate” means? I’ve been playing support role in Baron lane because I think Baron lane is low impact and I’ve been getting like 700% assisted conversion rate at after game stats

[@sierrawithlove]

I’m not sure what stats you are talking about, sorry…

[@rezvv]

Daddy graves 😊.

[@sierrawithlove]

😏

[@oscarecaldre8415]

Do you have PBE access?

[@sierrawithlove]

No, unfortunately

[@isaiahmatthews9328]

Like I mentioned b4 as an Ornn main im fine with them nerfing the damage but just leave his tankyness alone

[@isaiahmatthews9328]

And interested to see how the Annie rework would do doesnt sound to Op but only time will tell but the Buffs to Caitlyn and Nillia gonna be a pain when THOSE idiots who play adc top pick them

[@isaiahmatthews9328]

And great Vid 👍

[@sierrawithlove]

Thank you so much! 😁 Tried to make it informative and fast paced at the same time. Got a little confused with these attack damage ratio to monsters changes with Gwen, Volibear and Nilah, as people are saying it’s a nerf, but for some reason devs wrote it like they were buffs in their patch-notes 🙃

[@sierrawithlove]

Ornn now should be a well-balanced tank with an okay damage, like it should be for a tank :)

[@isaiahmatthews9328]

@@sierrawithlove Your Very Welcome, and yeah they should have put those changes under adjustments since they nerfed the Damage to monster from 100% and buffed the other aspects so that there wouldn't be any confusion

[@Saguro.wildrift]

Dc link ?

[@sierrawithlove]

discord.gg/4fAXGdYxdn

[@garrycaba1233]

Get well soon

[@sierrawithlove]

Thank you dear! 💜